Sentence examples for slightly melancholic from inspiring English sources

I have a happy disposition, though I am also slightly melancholic.

Corace's gentle, slightly melancholic illustrations are fitting for a child's evening goodbyes.

They're clearly having a ball, albeit a slightly melancholic ball that often lands in their face.

With his wispy beard and slightly melancholic expression, he seems truly a young man of his time.

5.23pm BST Welcome to a celebratory, if slightly melancholic, last night of the swimming at the Aquatics Centre!

In scenes that conformed to a soap-opera template, Mr. Armstrong could be portrayed as a foil for his eager-to-please, if slightly melancholic, wife, Taylor.

Red's ambient mood will wrap around cliffs and mountains of the West Coast like a warm blanket a dark, moody, and slightly melancholic-warm blanket, that is.

Willis has attracted detractors due to his somewhat melancholic style.

All the while he maintains an expression of melancholic, slightly quizzical impassivity.

Sweetly melancholic and slightly absurdist, Wächtler's art deals with "change and the impossibility of it, the lie of it and the idea of another self", creating "a looping environment with characters fixed and paralysed by the wish for personal change, unable to perceive that you are still the same idiot watching a different sea".

ETIENNE (Monday) These English conceptual electronic romantics' songs imagine daily life as a bright, sometimes melancholic, but always slightly insouciant dance.